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A11581 • 2025

Relates to the right to breast feed

Relates to the right to breast feed

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Sponsor
Phara Souffrant Forrest
Last action
2026-06-05
Official status
In Assembly Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Relates to the right to breast feed

Relates to the right to breast feed Makes certain terms gender neutral in provisions regarding the right to breast feed.

What This Bill Does

  • Relates to the right to breast feed Makes certain terms gender neutral in provisions regarding the right to breast feed.

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Bill History

  1. 2026-06-05 Assembly

    REFERRED TO GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS

Official Summary Text

Relates to the right to breast feed
Makes certain terms gender neutral in provisions regarding the right to breast feed.

Current Bill Text

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          11581

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                      June 5, 2026
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Forrest) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations

        AN ACT to amend the civil rights law, in relation to the right to breast
          feed

          THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section  1.  Section 79-e of the civil rights law, as added by chapter
     2  98 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 79-e. Right to breast feed. Notwithstanding any other  provision  of
     4  law, a [mother] PERSON may breast feed [her] THEIR baby in any location,
     5  public  or private, where the [mother] PERSON is otherwise authorized to
     6  be, irrespective of whether or not the nipple of the [mother's] PERSON'S
     7  breast is covered during or incidental to the breast feeding.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05184-01-5